Huneric

Huneric (420-23 December 484) was King of the Vandalic Kingdom from 477 to 484, succeeding Gaiseric and preceding Gunthamund.

Biography
Huneric was the son of King Gaiseric of the Vandals, and he was sent to Italy as a hostage in 435, when his father concluded a treaty with the Western Roman emperor Valentinian III. In the mid-440s, he was betrothed to marry Valentinian's daughter Eudoxia, whom he married in the 460s. He succeeded his father as King in 477, and he lifted the Arian persecution of Catholics in the Vandalic Kingdom and improved relations with the Eastern Roman Empire. Not long after the ordination of Bishop Eugenius of Carthage, Huneric continued to persecute the Catholics and banished many of them, including the banishment of several bishops to Corsica in 484. He also persecuted Manichaeans, and the Moors successfully rebelled against his rule in Algeria. He died in 484.